Synopsis

John Badham directs this baseball comedy set in the 1930s Midwest. A spirited team of renegade black ballplayers, led by charismatic pitcher Bingo Long (Billy Dee Williams), defect from the unfairly-run Negro National League and take to the road challenging the white teams of each small town as they go along in the hope of swinging their way to a winning season. Richard Pryor and James Earl Jones co-star.